Power up your mobile web applications — It's a mobile zoo out there. If you've ever tried coding up a mobile client application, you've probably noticed that the huge variety of mobile operating systems makes it tough to build rich applications that work on every device. We face the same challenges.

Silverlight Goes Mobile With Nokia — Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft's Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant's rich media development framework.

Steven Spielberg's Ghost Town — Hollywood super producer Steven Spielberg is preparing to launch a new social network, we've heard from multiple sources. The focus will be on users who've had or who are interested in sharing paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences.

ASUS' 9-inch Eee PC, now with living pixels! — We showed you quite a bit of the 9-inch Eee PC from ASUS yesterday, but they wouldn't let us turn it on. Now that CeBIT has officially begun, however, ASUS is lighting up those pixels loud and proud. ASUS tells us the screen is 1024 x 600 …

AMD Sets Sites on 45-nm — At CeBIT, AMD will offer demonstrations of its newest chip technology for servers and desktops. — AMD's first 45-nanometer processors are within sight. — At the 2008 CeBIT conference March 4 in Hannover, Germany, Advanced Micro Devices will demonstrate working 45-nm …

Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 — We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. — Why Change? — Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.

Yahoo! unveils third leg for managing mobile content — CeBIT Yahoo! sprouted the third leg of its mobile content strategy today, with the surprise launch of onePlace, an application that aggregates and filters users' content desires. — onePlace lines up with oneSearch …

Dell gets rugged to pump up sales — The Latitude XFR D630 from Dell is not sexy. — But that's not the point. The PC maker's first ruggedized notebook isn't having a New York coming-out party with runway models a la the colorful Inspiron and XPS laptops from last summer.

Optimus Maximus keyboard for laptops? Yes, please. — Truth be told, the bona fide Optimus Maximus keyboard is still quite a few bills higher than most folks are willing to pay, which makes the likelihood of a similar layout hitting laptops anytime soon that much slimmer.